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Gozan (גּוֹזָן, gozan). A region on the upper Habor River, to which the Israelites were exiled (2 Kgs 17:6; 18:11; 1 Chr 5:26). When the “Gozan River” is mentioned it is likely the Habor in the region of Gozan. Sennacherib boasts that “the kings of Assyria” had destroyed the people of Gozan, among others (2 Kgs 19:12). Isaiah, when warning of Assyrian destruction, also mentions the demise of “Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the people of Eden” (Isaiah 37:12). Today, many scholars understand Gozan to be located at the modern Tell Halâf, east of Haran. This may be the same as the Gauzanitis cited by Ptolemy (Georg 5.18).
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